Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-29
GRADUATING EXERCISES.
AWARDING HIGH SCHOOL AND
GRAMMAR SCaOOL DIPLOMAS.
Interesting Closing Exercises at Most
of the City Schools Yesterday
and Last Evening.

The graduating exercises of the Sacra-
mento High School were held last evening
in the Metropolitan Theater. The building
was packed by brilliant representative
audience, and long before the exercises
commenced standing-room could not be
obtained. The stage was handsomely set,
and profusely decorated with floral pieces.
Over the center of the stage was suspended
an evergreen crescent, upon which was
worked in flowers the class motto,
" Coram Nobis." The graduates, whose
names appear elsewhere, the
faculty of the High School,
the City Board of Education, Rev. f. r.
Ollie, State Superintendent of Public In
struction Ira g. Hoitt, and others occupied
seats upon the stage. The exercises were
deeply interesting, of course more keenly
so to the young people to whom this end
ing of High School life and entering upon
more active and trying scenes was an event
of momentous importance. The several
numbers, as announced below, were given
with that excellence that reflected credit
upon the faculty and the graduates
alike. For the latter, the essays testified
TO the literary finish of the student
on the one hand, and his or her
capacity for serious thought and its orderly
and forcible arrangement on the other In
both respects the graduates reflected honor
upon the school, and stood new proofs to
its efficiency and great usefulness in the
scheme of popular education. 1t was the
intention, by extract and comment, to have
indicated the character, line of thought,
method of expression and style of delivery
by the reader in the case of each essay, but
the exceedingly crowded condition of our
columns prohibits such presentation. PIin-
cipal Anderson's opening remarks were
brief and appropriate, and the Introductory
remarks by Superintendent Beard were
lifting, direct and forceful. Upon Presi-
dent COnklin, of the Board of Education,
devolved the pleasant duty of presenting
the diplomas. Hon. Ira G. Holt s.address
to the class was a concise, forcible and III
teresting contribution to educational litera-
ture, and as it related to the High School
as an invaluable institution, we shall pre-
sent it in full tomorrow. The programme
was as follows:
Greeting song, by the class: invocation,
Rev. E. r. Ollie; Introductory remarks, NJ.
r. Beard, City Superintendent of Schools ;
chorus, Slowly and Softly Music Should
FLOW, ny the CldSS SdluldtOTy anu essay,
Poets Eyes," Roselie Inglis; essay,
Example, Lizzie NJ. Wittenbrock F.;
chorus, When Life is Brightest" by the
class; recitation, Grandmother's Story of
Bunker HILL" Eda C. Ebert; essay Ger
NAM, Studies Preparatory to Schiller's
Don Carlos, Lucy Turner instrumental
solo, Hungarian Danse," Louise Millikin;
essay, Letter from Athens in the Time of
Pericles," Henrietta Andriot Grafton,
War or Arbitration" J. L. Whitbeck !;
chorus, The Voice of the Storm by the
class; essay, The Three Singers" Jennie
Richards essay, The Study of Modern
Languages" Jennie Shook instrumental
duo, violin and piano, Joe Elmer, Minnie
Drew Grafton and valedictory, Albert H.
Elliott address, Hon. Ira G.. Hoitt, State
Superintendent Of Education presenta-
ton of diplomas, A. Conklin, President of
Board of Education parting song, by the
class.